Aim your arrows at flocks of words spokenbut not meant, follow the path of strewn feathers

Measure the gulf between you with an inaccurate rulerone that shifts scale between atoms and stars

Nap in the full sun, let the sprouting grass risethrough your bones, wake up side by side

Collect pebbles, the close attention to groundwill bring you to the same stone

Talk to the wind, forget what you’re looking for, touch the petalsof flowers with no thought for a vase, give up ever arriving at the door

It’s the black crow intoning from a seed of dreamThat’s the syllable that will save you

Carol Graser has run the poetry reading series at Saratoga’s legendary Caffè Lena since 2003 and has performed her work at various events and venues around New York. Her work has been published in many literary journals and she is the author of the poetry collection, The Wild Twist of Their Stems (Foothills Publishing 2007).